Weekly Petroleum Status Report Release Schedule: Wednesday after 10:35 a.m. EST (for tables 1 and 11-17 in txt, csv, and xls formats) and after 1:00 p.m. EST (for pdf files and appendix C) (schedule)
Also This Week in Petroleum Release Schedule: Wednesday @ 1:00 p.m. EST
1) APE to WAV: http://supermmx.org/linux/mac/ (seems not included in most distributions, need to compile by yourself): mac cd.ape cd.wav -d
2) WAV to MP3: lame –preset standard cd.wav cd.mp3
3) Split: mp3splt -f -c cd.cue -o “@n” cd.mp3
4) Tag: mp3info -a artist -l album 01.mp3
Lele’s allergy to some food additives. The cakes from the store always bring rashes on his face. So I revised the pound cake recipe by using cream cheese instead of half butter.
I am not sure if this cake can be called pound cheese cake, but I think this name is more suitable than any other name. Don’t care about the name. Just make a delicious cake in a every easy way.
Tools:
a handheld blender
a big bowl
measure cups or scale
rubber scraper
loaf pan or angel cake pan
Ingredients:
4 oz (113 g) butter
4 oz (113 g) cream cheese
1 cup (190 g) sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 cup (160 g) flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoon (50 g) milk
How:
Place an oven rack in the middle level position and preheat oven to 350′ F (180′ C).
Grease the cake pan if your pan is not non-stick.
Mix flour and baking powder in a medium size bowl.
Put butter, cream cheese, and sugar into a large mixing bowl. Blender until creamy in consistency. Then add in eggs and continue blender until creamy. Add in flour mixture and milk and mix well using blender. Transfter batter to the cake pan and bake in preheated oven for 40~45 minutes.
Tip: Microwave 15 seconds in high fire before eating.
1. You can get cup cake if you use cupcake pan. Don’t forget to shorten the baking time.
2. Put 1 1/2 cup blueberry on the top of the batter, you will get blueberry cake.
3. Put 1 cup nuts on the top of the batter, you will get nut cake.
4. Add more milk, you will get soft cake.
I have the need to read some obfusticated javascripts from Zillow. GNU indent doesn’t seems to support javascript. Tried a web based tool from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty-printing and it worked. Save this experience here, I am sure I will meet similar problems in the future.
Commonly known as the Beige Book, this report is published eight times per year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector. An overall summary of the twelve district reports is prepared by a designated Federal Reserve Bank on a rotating basis.
In Craigslist, you can find posts for a well maintained used car from someone that is leaving the area due to job relocation, as well as for a car that looks nice, but whose owner is trying to get rid of like hell. It is important to use good keywords that can land you a larger percentages of the former. Some of the good examples that I have used are: relocation, receipts, receipt, loan, offer, ugly, bad, firm (price), hate, afford, “one/single/original owner” “service records” “two cars” title “must sell” “selling my” “selling because”. Make sure you contact the owner and chat as long as you can and as many times as possbile, and really understand the reason behind the selling. The communication efforts and time spent on chatting will never be too much …
These days I restored the web history project, which aims to collect time series data from the web. One good use of it is to make my own intelligence reports into many economic indicators, with the help of many online databases like careerbuilder.com and craigslist.org.
Now the project is able to restart collecting old data. The next step is to study more deep into craigslist.org and provide very detailed reports of each category/region.
Just come back from a small party where there are two boys, two girls and four mothers. Lele had a lot of fun. When four kids played a bamboo dragonfly, Lele was a little unpatient during waiting his turn. After several rounds, he finally learned to wait his turn and hand the toy to the next player. He also said thank you when he accepted something from others. Lele cried when he said goodbye to his new friends. I found he became to enjoy playing with other children. I am really happy for his improvement.
Recently I am worrying if Lele is related with autism because of an article from a mother in his soccer class. Now I am encouraged by Lele’s behavior. Comparing with other children, he still lacks social skill, but he has improved than before.
… The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.